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Why did constantinople get the works?

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no you can not go back, Been a long time gone. It might not be anyone's business but the Turks, What prompted the name change to Istanbul. Istanbul is a 1953 novelty song with lyrics by Jimmy Kennedy and music by Nat Simon. It was written on the 500th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople

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That's no body's business but the Turks. More seriously after the Islamic Ottoman empire conquered it they changed the name.

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